“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” -Henry Emerson Fosdick

(NOTE: Your software should be set to automatically add :00 after any digits of 1-12 that you write before writing a.m or p.m.)

(ALSO NOTE: Your software should have a command for a number conversion that will allow numbers to be converted into “clock mode.” In my dictionary, the clock mode designation is KLM, defined as {Number Conversion}[nN:NN] If I write KLM on my machine and then write numbers on my machine following the clock mode stroke, the numbers will convert into a time format that includes a colon (00:00).

“On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed and fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree and, among the less, the patient, weak ones always conquer the impatient, strong.” -John Ruskin

According to WritingExplained.org, “preventive” and “preventative” are interchangeable. They can both be used as a noun or an adjective. The words both “refer to things that prevent, hinder, or act as obstacles.”

WritingExplained.org further explains that between the two word choices, internationally, “preventive” is the preferred choice; being used approximately eight times more than “preventative.”

The website also states that the existence of the word “preventive” predates “preventative” by a few decades, and is preferred by the New York Times, AP Stylebook, The Chicago Manual of Style, and other grammar sources.

Crepitation is defined as follows: “(1) A crackling sound made in breathing by a person with an inflamed lung, detected using a stethoscope. (2) A dry sound like that of grating the ends of a fractured bone. (3) The sensation felt on placing the hand over the seat of a fracture when the broken ends of the bone are moved, or over tissue in which gas gangrene is present. (4) The noise produced by rubbing bone or irregular cartilage surfaces together, as in arthritis.”